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Touching Quotes

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact. Wallace Stegner
Walt Whitman quote: "Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be..."
Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body. Walt Whitman
Ray Bradbury quote: "Touch a scientist and you touch a child."
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. Ray Bradbury
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear. Neil Gaiman
John Keats quote: "Touch has a memory."
Touch has a memory. John Keats
Margaret Atwood quote: "Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first..."
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. Margaret Atwood
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the..."
Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you. J. R. R. Tolkien
Touched by an Angel We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life. Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fearfrom our souls. We are weaned from our timidity. In the flush of love's lightwe dare be brave. And suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be.... Maya Angelou
Henry Fox quote: "Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of..."
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels. Henry Fox
Barry Cornwall quote: "Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently,..."
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! Barry Cornwall
Barton Booth quote: "Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle."
Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle. Barton Booth
Joan Blades quote: "Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a..."
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. Joan Blades
Della Reese quote: "Touching people is very rewarding to me."
Touching people is very rewarding to me. Della Reese
Diane Ackerman quote: "Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight."
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. Diane Ackerman
The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just... Gilbert K. Chesterton

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